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No. 239,781. Patented April 5,1881.

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l. Pam WOWHOGRAPIIER, WASHINGTON. D CA UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. HINGSTON, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, W. M. OITEBLEY, AND GOODRICH J. BOWEN, OF SAME PLACE.

FLY-POISON PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters .Patent No. 239,781, dated April 5, 1881.

Application led April 15, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WTLLIAM E. HINGsToN, of the city ot' Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented an Improved 5 Fly-Poison Plate, fully set forth in the following specitication and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan or face view of the plate,

and Fig. 2 a cross-section through the center. 1o The object of this invention is to produce a ily-poison device that is safe, clean, always ready, and complete in itself for all the purposes necessary to its use 5 and it consists of a of absorbent material to receive the poison. 25 It is made of thick absorbent paper; but porous earthenware, Wood, or any other material that will absorb and hold the poison will answer the purpose. p

B represents the upper surface of the rim, and U is the advertising disk or slip placed over the poison material, to which'it is pasted or otherwise fastened. The outer edge ot' C, (shown by dotted lines,) may be cemented or otherwise fastened to the plate, so that the water will not cause its separation.

Any of the well-known poisons for the purpose may be used.

The within-described ily-poison device, consisting of a plate having a diskot absorbent material containing poison, forming a part of the bottom of the plate or fastened thereto, as set forth.

i WILLIAM E. HINGSTION. Witnesses: p

J. SANGSTER,

W. M. GITERLEY. 

